Camila Cabello is Making a Song About What It Feels Like to be an Immigrant

Camila Cabello has been majorly successful in her short career. She got onto The X Factor when she was in high school, which launched her Fifth Harmony gig, and now her upcoming solo album is one of the most highly anticipated albums of 2017.

But all that doesn't mean she hasn't had her share of struggles. Camila moved from Cuba to Mexico and eventually to the U.S. when she was just six-years-old. And she's proud of her Cuban roots. To remove some of the stigma surrounding the word "immigrant" in the only way she knows how, Camila is writing a song about her experience of coming to America.

Camila and her mother had to deal with a lot of challenges acclimating to their new home, especially since they were separated from Camila's dad for a year and a half as they waited for him to gain entrance into the U.S. to be with them.

Sinuhe was an architect in Cuba, but had to get a job in retail at Marshalls until she could get her degree as a general contractor and launch her own construction company in the U.S.. Camila, meanwhile, got used to a whole new life at school.

"In Cuba there were days in class where we would just watch cartoons. We weren't learning," the former Fifth Harmony star explained. "But when I came to the U.S., it was like: homework. A lot of things were suddenly so ­different — being at a new school without my friends, I didn't speak the language, and I missed my dad."

"I want to make a love song for immigrants," she revealed. "That word, immigrant, has such a negative connotation — I can just imagine all the little girls who have dreams of coming here and feel unwanted."

She hopes the song will inspire her fans to fight for their futures.

"It inspires me in my music to do my best to give [them] the light that I have," Camila shared. "I want to be what people think of when they think of America — a person who, no matter what her first language was or what her religion is, can see her dreams come to life if she works hard enough."